A pleasure to speak about recent work on Global Urban Perspectives on Social Work for Innovative Access to Homeless Care at a great event on the Impact of the Specialist Homelessness Social Work Role & Next Steps for Policy & Practice organised by Manchester Council and KCL

*Job alert* We are advertising two opportunities @manchester.ac.uk, linked to the JUST centre (www.just.ac.uk) - A Post-Doctoral Research Associate on Social & Built Infrastructure (www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...) - A PhD on Green Skills & Communities (www.findaphd.com/phds/project...)

Wed 5th Nov @cperguom.bsky.social Cities, Politics, & Economies Research Group in the Department of Geography & MUI @uomseed.bsky.social will host a talk by Dr Rakib Akhtar on: Neoliberalism and Hindutva in the making of an Indian smart city, chaired by @mehebubsahana.bsky.social 3pm in HBS G33.

A goal of the #UKRI Urban Crisis project is to shift conversations on health inequalities & poverty to see it as a whole person / whole systems issue. So it was such a privilege for our team to co-organise a policy exchange with the Municipality of Athens. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/e...

Save the date! We'll have materials to share from @wcmlibrary.bsky.social and @aiucentre.bsky.social and a roundtable discussion with folks sharing their reflections and experiences from the time. Should be a lively and participatory discussion! @cperguom.bsky.social @thejohnrylands.bsky.social

Went ahead a made a separate account for this archival research -- follow along @peoplespapers.bsky.social !

Interested to learn more about this People's Papers project? Check out a link of upcoming and past events as well as recent blog posts here: linktr.ee/peoplespapers

Another excellent event coming up organized by CPE's Arielle Lawson. See you there!

Special Section in The GJ: 'Legacies of Austerity', edited by @smhall.bsky.social & @sanvanlan.bsky.social This #OpenAccess collection explores how the lens of legacies can be applied to understand austerity's effects in Europe. Available here⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

A reminder of our departmental seminar series this autumn.

Some good speakers coming to GDI this semester.

Congrats!

In Athens 26th Sept? Join us for a workshop on Best Practices for Addressing Homelessness Outreach Across Athens, Greece, Manchester U.K., & Santiago, Chile. English translation provided. The event is part of our UKRI Urban Crisis Project and co-sponsored with the Municipality of Athens.

Want to hear more about some of the many alternative local newspapers (such as LOP) that sprang up around the UK in the 1970s and 1980s? If so, this online event might just be for you. Thanks to @feministcity.bsky.social, @wcmlibrary.bsky.social and @cperguom.bsky.social, among others.

The Department of Geography at The University of Manchester has a really full and exciting seminar series this autumn, if you're in town, do come join us! @cperguom.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social

It was a pleasure to sit in the passenger seat with Laam Hae's driving on the long journey that became this article. It's focused on her extensive work on the topic here, but I had some modest input with the theoretical framing.... 1/4

Next up in the #Manchester Urban Film series, we're focusing on the city's contested music (and urban) histories. We'll be showing film + interview clips followed by a collective discussion. Learn more and sign up to join us on Sept 25th here: mancunianway.eventbrite.co.uk @cperguom.bsky.social

And another upcoming event with CPE members launching an exciting new book!

Save the date! Organizing an online “People’s Papers” workshop on Sept 30th to hear from projects in Leeds (@rememberlop.bsky.social), Liverpool and Birmingham: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-... @wcmlibrary.bsky.social

First @rgsibg.bsky.social session:

Please join us for this upcoming CPE co-sponsored event later this Sept.

✨ The Stitch Assembly is live at #RGSIBG2025 in Birmingham! Whether you’re here in person or joining from afar, we want you to feel part of our creative community. Find your moment to stitch & share! #StitchAssemblyRGS25 💫 🧵 A few snapshots so far 👇

How can we make cities healthier & fairer places to live, work and play? @ctemenos.bsky.social investigates the intersecting challenges that exacerbate #healthinequalities. research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/c... #healthierfuturesuom #fairerhealthforall @uomseed.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social

Brings a whole new meaning to "Bread & Roses"! Speaking of, a small group of us have been coming together for c2yrs as the Bread & Roses Collective to think about radical care and activism in an unequal world. We have a logo and blurb: @austerityalters site will be updated soon with more info 🍞🌹

Deadline to register for this conference is tomorrow :)

Prepping materials 🧵🏵️🧶for Stitch Assembly at #RGS-IBG Follow #StitchAssemblyRGS25 for updates, reflections & stitched quilt squares from remote participants & our in-person session. If you’re in Birmingham we’d love to see you there! @poppybudworth.bsky.social @alisonjeffers.bsky.social

Nice to see that the whole special issue on Korea's martial law crisis and prodemocracy protests is finally out as a complete collection: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcra20/5...

Great news after so many senseless, life destroying lawsuits against workers for exercising their freedom of association rights that should have always been recognised in law.

Looking forward to discussing Yu-Shan Tseng's Liquid Democracy at today's #RGS. An important read for anyone interested in understanding contemporary urban democracy! @rgsibg.bsky.social

At RGS tomorrow? Come along to our session on Urban Politics, Crises and Conjunctures with @colinlorne.bsky.social @markushesse60.bsky.social @derek-ruez.bsky.social

In May I had the pleasure to discuss a series of papers on South Korea's martial law crisis by my esteemed colleagues. After the event, Nan Kim asked me if I was interested in typing up my thoughts for a special thematic section of the venerable journal Critical Asian Studies. 1/4

Really pleased to share that on Monday I passed my PhD viva 😀 Studying for my PhD has been such a privilege thanks to the support I have had from countless people. Particularly, thanks to the endless support of my supervisors, Alison Browne, @natemillington.bsky.social, and Erik Swyngedouw.

Centring joy, connection and dignity in anti-poverty activism. 🪧 📢 😁 @smhall.bsky.social is a champion for tackling the causes and consequences of poverty with and for communities and grassroots organisations. #healthierfuturesuom #fairerhealthforall #healthinequalities

✈️ New paper published in Progress in Human Geography ✈️ 'Mobilities I: Crisis' by Cristina Temenos journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @ctemenos.bsky.social

Mundane Methods Vol 1 currently available for £12.50 with SUN50 code 🤩 @helenholmes.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526139719/

Dr Cristina Temenos has been in Paris this week, braving the heat for an OECD/Bloomberg High-Level Workshop on urban policy mobility. Cristina's presentation highlighted the opportunities and risks of city-to-city learning, and the importance of local context. #OECD #UrbanPolicy

About 15 years ago a Vancouver BID tried to rename Hastings-Sunrise the East Village. It was a spectacular flop. They spent so much 💰 on rebranding. Everyone laughed because it was a dumb marketing exercise. Moral: don’t give developers airtime when they try to claim naming rights based on nothing.

Pleased this new progress report on Mobilities & Crisis is out #OpenAccess. I suggest that mobility isn't just about movement but also navigating the temporalities of ongoing hardship, where crisis is part of the lived experience rather than an exceptional event. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Pleased to be participating in this [free] Online Korean Studies Frankfurt Summer School in early August. Lot's of good speakers and open to undergrad and (post)graduate students anywhere, I believe.

Great first day of the Spatialising Urban Crisis workshop - very exciting to welcome folks to Manchester and looking forward to day two! @cperguom.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social #UKRI_FLF

Who’s going to write the book on the global phenomena of the spontaneous combustion of contested historical buildings slated for redevelopment?

Last week we had our Anti-Poverty Chats for Change, a lunch event bringing together community, policy+uni folk in Manchester. Together we explored how to galvanise A-P change, working collectively+creatively. Here's our winning create plate by Terri Lucas! If you want to know more, get in touch! 🍽🖍

Planning my trip to Barcelona to attend the 2025 AtGender conference and host a panel on "Political infrastructures of transformative justice" with 4 amazing speakers! Can't wait! 🤩 🎉 www.atgenderconference.org More info soon!

Also happy to wake up to see that this article, with Seung-Ook Lee, is finally out from a long simmering side project. The article does many things. It charts the frankly reactionary views of cyberlibertarian crypto and blockchain enthusiasts... 1/3 @antipodeonline.bsky.social

Just back from a short trip up to Edinburgh for the Association of Korean Studies in Europe Biennial Conference where I had the honour of recieving the AKSE Book Prize 2025 for my recent @uofmpress.bsky.social monograph: The Postdevelopmental State. @cperguom.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social

Excited to be in Barcelona this July and meet the @bcnuej.bsky.social team! Also happy to give a talk on "Counter-Topographies of Care: Feminist Geographies, Migrant Infrastructures, and Political Subjectification" 💻 In person & online 📆 8 July @uomseed.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org

What worlds emerge with/in imaginaries of anthropogenic planetary crisis?

Thanks so much again to Miriam Williams for visiting us here in Geography at Manchester this week @cperguom.bsky.social - we were lucky enough to hear a wonderful talk and have a reading group exploring her work on cities and care 🤩

What does building an ethics of care in academia mean? @bcnuej.bsky.social's "Ethics of Care framework" invites us to reflect on our research spaces—and to adopt or demand healthier, more humane working conditions in an increasingly hostile academic world. www.bcnuej.org/2025/05/30/n...